Notes / Commercial Description:
In Berliner Weisse we think we’ve found the perfect style for our summer Cellar Reserve. This north German wheat beer is traditionally brewed and released very fresh. It has a light body from the wheat and refreshingly tart acidity that make it a perfect summer thirst-quencher. Its lemony tartness is provided by a secondary fermentation with lactobacillus, the same microorganism that’s responsible for yogurt’s tang. That tartness increases and improves with age, so the people of Berlin are known to buy extra bottles to bury in their gardens for two years or more.

As usual with our Cellar Reserves, we’ve taken a traditional style and added our own twist. In this case we’ve tripled the strength over the traditional beer, which should only increase its aging potential. For the primary fermentation we used a traditional Bavarian hefeweizen yeast that produces soft notes of banana and clove. We followed that with lactobacillus and six months in conditioning to create a complex fruity acidity that compliments the soft sweet malt tones and a unique ale that is both fulfilling and refreshing.

12oz bottle (06/30/15 bottled on date) into a pint glass.
Hazy straw colored body with no head.
Aroma is clearly sour.
Taste is lemony yeast and some sour. If I didn't know better, I'd think this was a cider. It's very refreshing, dry, and no hint of the higher alchohol. That could be trouble.

A — Pours a hazy deep banana yellow hue into the glass, a cream colored head forms but settles and leaves bits of lacing behind, poured this very slowly but it is still super hazy and somewhat unappealing.

Surprised to see the low ratings since it's fairly acclaimed on the forums.
Anyways, here's my roll of the dice, served in a Tumbler pint.

Look : Manufactured frosted glass transparency with a straw yellow color. The head is 2 fingers but recedes very quickly - although that seems to be a trademark of many Berliners. Sparse lace with a creamy ring left on top, none on the sides.

Smell : Fairly off-putting with its rubber cement aroma, cheese/cauliflower mixture, and stale grains. Beyond that is a hint of sour lemon and lime squirts, onion, with yeast strains, and gasoline. Berliner Weissbiers are odd ducks in and of themselves, but this one has a lot off very off-aromas.

Taste : Thankfully the taste is better, with applesauce, lime juice, dill pickle, and yeast. Doughy flavors come out as well, giving a zing and pastiness to the profile. Slight acidity, orange squirts, and finally...a disappointing finish of chalk and kerosene.

Feel : Biting and creamy, creamy all the way to the finish. Ends semi-dry.

Overall : This is an aspiring Berliner Weiss. It does not meet the awesome standards that the Berliner is capable of, but rather it hints at it, scraping with its badger claws, never being able to climb to the top. If you have this beer, please know there are much better Berliners out there, so don't stop at this one.

This beer pours a hazy yellow with excellent head retention. The aroma leads with lemon, followed by sour dough, pepper, and something almost like aged Parmesan. The is at first tart, then bready, then tart again. The mouthfeel is fizzy and refrshing. Overall this is an awesome oddball beer, not a traditional Berliner Weisse, but not bad for it.

Bought a four pack of 12 ounce bottles this afternoon. Served in over-sized wine glass. Pours a very opaque honey-yellow. Could have been a little more clear, but last bit out of the bottle was full of fine sediment, some of which can now be seen sliding down toward the bottom of the glass. Very thin, very fine white head of low to medium retention. In bottle, very pilsner-like aroma. In the glass, grain or crackers, vinegar strong at first, but soon it's mostly Band Aid, not unpleasant in my opinion. On the palate, very sour but good if you can appreciate that, lighter fruits, so as the description suggests, lemon more so than vinegar. And Band Aid again, a bit hard to differentiate from what little malt character there is. I'd say medium in body, not light, but it's close. Medium level of mildly prickly carbonation, mellowing quickly, not too dry of a finish.

A: Hazy amber with a champagne like white foam cap that quickly fills the glass and then drops to a thick fizzy film.
S: Light horseblanket and lemony tartness, light bread.
T: Lemony tart light fruit, white bread. F: Very effervescent, refreshing and light.
O: This has twice the alcohol of a traditional Berliner Weiss but it is ery refreshing.

12 oz bottle of Snarling Badger with bottled on date of 23 June 2014.
Pours clear, light amber with a small head.
The aroma is an unappealing mix of yeast, citrus, bready malts and funk.
Flavor: mildly tart with a mostly lemony citrus tone. Some bready light grains.

O: get past the aroma and you'll find a quite drinkable weisse beer with well hidden ABV.

A: Hazy straw, no head or lacing, single vibrant stream of carbonation in the center.

S: Slightly tart and sour lemon balanced by bready yeast.

T: Delicate yeast funk, the sourness is diminished here a little, but still apparent. Lemon. Near-dry. No alcohol apparent, even with these light flavors. A little watery, and I'd like more sourness, but the flavors there are clean and balanced.

F: Light bodied, fine carbonation.

O: A bit watery, but still enjoyable, and were it not for the ABV, sessionable in the extreme. Another viewpoint is that they show restrain in their formula.

Pours a cloudy, maize color. 3/4 inch head of a white color. Great retention and great lacing. Smells of yeast, slight lemon, sweet malt, slight pale malt, and a hint of wheat. Fits the style of a Berliner Weissbier. Mouth feel is sharp and crisp, with an average carbonation level. Tastes of lemon, sweet malt, slight pale malt, hint of wheat, and strong yeast. Overall, great appearance, good aroma, decent feel, okay body, and good blend.

a very god ale, right on for summer and super easy drinking and refreshing and all. my only issue, and its a big one, is that is this really sour mashed like a berliner should be? is it really tart? sour? funky? sessionable? lots of no and a yes there. it truly is sessionable, but there is no lacto there at all, let alone a sour mash or a funky weirdness or lemon kick. lightness is there, real sessionable and low abv and all of that, but no tart to the taste, no citrus kick or acidity, its just an ale, and for something billed as a wild, its real disappointing. the way thier oud bruin is a good beer, but not good as an oud briun, this does basically the same thing. tasty as a beer, fully, but not enough as a berliner, missing a lot of key elements. light and clean, but show me the sour!!!

A faded orangish body holds up a ... no, there is no head! Or lacing. The aroma is very tart with Granny Smith apples coming to mind. Also hints of banana and clove. The taste is pretty tart as well. You have to really try hard to pick out the malt from all of the tartness. The mouthfeel is slightly acidic!

Poured from a 12 oz. bottle into a tall pint glass. Bottled on 5/23/14.

Appearance: Pours a very cloudy yellowish golden orange with a lot of rising bubbles. About one finger of white head that fades into a thin patchy layer. Leaves a decent amount of lacing.

Smell: A funky, tart, and fruity wheat forward aroma with hints of spice and citrus. Wheat and pale malt with hints of straw, grains, cracker, yeast, and caramel. Big hints of the lacto funk. Spice hints of coriander, clove, and pepper. Good fruit presence with zesty hints of lemon, orange, banana, and pear. A pretty decent Hefeweizen like aroma.

Pours a huge, frothy, white head that has really good persistence. A nice yeasty aroma that is a touch tart. Hazy, straw color. Starts a bit tart, yeasty, and with a bit of grainy hop. Wells up into a big banana/clove yeastiness. Quite dry. Finish is biscuity malt with yeast in the background.

Overall, this isn't too bad. It's like a mildly sour hefeweizen. I like a Berliner that's most assertively tart, and a bit thinner, actually.

A heavily clouded pale gold color, this beer grows a moderately sized and extremely fluffy pure white head. Retention is pretty good, and the lacing is in the same moderation as the head itself in quantity and heaviness.
There's all kinds of everything going on in this aroma, and it's a little confusing. It wants to come together, but doesn't quite manage cohesion. I do get the notes I want, with tartness, funk and some sour fruits, but the phenols, light bitterness, grass/hay and bready malts complementing it add confusion rather than working together.
The flavor offer much of the same, and the boozy heat adds another element of confusion even as some of the aroma's confusion eases off. Lots of yeast, earth, tartness, sourness, funk, fruits, dryness and sweetness competing; it's interesting for sure. Ultimately, it's actually pretty good, just difficult to put together.
The feel moves back and forth between tangy/leafy dryness and fruity sorts of sweetness, but it's got the light sting on the tongue that doesn't hit too hard. The odd booziness gets to the mouthfeel just a little, but it's this beer's best aspect.

On sale for 3.99 at my local liquor store. Can't beat the price for 22oz and 7.5 abv.

A. Looks good. About a finger of head. A peach type if color.
S. All I can smell is wine.
T. Fruity. Maybe peaches. Almost tastes like fruit cocktail juice.
M. Light mouth feel. Ends dry like a red wine. (Of the red wines I have tried they have finished dry. No wine experience)
O. I haven't had many of this style that I know of. That being said it, its not a bad beer. I would try again.